CLASSIC: Secrets of the Founding Fathers, Chapter One: Some Very Weird Dudes

In this week's Classic episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore some extremely weird dudes known as the Founding Fathers of the United States. They're memorialized in monuments, museums, currency, holidays -- the list goes on. For more than a century they were deified, held up as paragons of statecraft. Yet the way they've been portrayed in textbooks often skips over details that ran counter to the shining image sold to generations of school children. You see, the Founding Fathers had secrets... so many, in fact, that we had to make this a two-part episode. They don't want you to read our book.:

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This episode is 57:48 long.

This episode was published on Apr 14, 2026.

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